MILWAUKEE - DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Paul E. Maxwell, Jr. and Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today that 11 defendants have been charged with conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin and 40 grams or more of fentanyl...

NEWARK, N.J. -- An Illinois man today admitted conspiring to transport heroin and cocaine to New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Daniel Gonzalez Maldonado, 25, of Carpentersville, Ill., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton in Newark federal court to an information charging him with one count...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced that Juan Ortega-Baez, 19, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, was sentenced...

PEORIA, Ill. – U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid has sentenced Raymone Stephens, 31, of Bloomington, Illinois., to 16 years and 8 months in prison for his role in a crack cocaine trafficking conspiracy in 2018. Stephens, sentenced on Jan. 9, 2020, has been in the custody of the U.S...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., today announced that Mohammed Alawi, 52, of Lackawanna, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, a controlled...

MADISON, Wis. - DEA Special Agent in Charge Robert J. Bell and United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin Scott C. Blader announced that William Huff, 54, of St. Paul, Minnesota, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to five years in federal prison...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that Dr. Eugene Gosy, 59, of Clarence, N.Y., pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances...

URBANA, Ill. – U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm today sentenced a Champaign, ll., man, Stephan Caamano, to 13 years in federal prison for trafficking at least 4.3 million counterfeit Xanax pills throughout the country and laundering the proceeds. Caamano has been ordered to pay more than $2.1 million he...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Defendant Joanna De Alba, a U.S. citizen, will be arraigned this afternoon in federal court in Brooklyn on an indictment charging her with conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine, and distribution of heroin and methamphetamine via the “dark web.” De Alba...

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. – DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini today announced the results of an almost two-year-long investigation that resulted in one of the largest takedowns of MS-13 gang members and associates in U.S. history. The intelligence gathered...